Sure, and User Account Control essentially does that on Vista (yeah, yeah, UAC sucks, Vista sucks, etc.). All I was trying to say is that it's not really a WTF in my opinion. There are legitimate reasons (maybe) to write to boot.ini and it's not just Windows that lets you kill your computer by corrupting/overwriting critical files.
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RE: Typo in EVE Online patch results in Windows installation corruption
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RE: Typo in EVE Online patch results in Windows installation corruption
@Dark Shikari said:
WTF 3: This getting through QA and ending up in a patch run by up to two hundred thousand people.
WTF 4: The fact that Windows allows applications to overwrite boot.ini.
WTF 3: Either the patch didn't go through QA or there are some QA people polishing their resumes right now.
WTF 4: Linux doesn't stop you from rm -rf * in / when you're root. Why should Windows be different? Also, what if a legitimate Windows patch needs to update the file?